CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Gorr
Reading things like, http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1373.html which discuss CFBundleIdentifier, the example always given for what it should look like is of the form: com.mycompany.MyApp My question is, as different versions, of the same application, are released, it is a good

RE: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Gary L. Wade
It's really up to you and the kinds of changes that you expect to happen between each version. Having a single ID allows preferences to be mixed and matched if different versions of the product are used, but if you want to support the simultaneous use of last year's version and this year's

Re: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: My question is, as different versions, of the same application, are released, it is a good idea or recommended that the CFBundleIdentifier reflect the version of the application as well. For example, one might have: com.mycompany.MyApp2007

Re: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Clark Cox
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Eric Gorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading things like, http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1373.html which discuss CFBundleIdentifier, the example always given for what it should look like is of the form: com.mycompany.MyApp My question is, as

Re: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Gorr
On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote: Remember that preferences and the like are keyed off of the bundle identifier, so changing it would give you some work to do in migrating older settings. I am focused on your phrase 'and the like'. Other then preferences, what else is

Re: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: Other then preferences, what else is keyed off of the bundle identifier? So, just to be clear, would you generally consider it to be the case that a unique bundle identifier is intended to identify a unique application and not different

Re: CFBundleIdentifier Application Version

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Gorr
On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: It's really up to you and the kinds of changes that you expect to happen between each version. Having a single ID allows preferences to be mixed and matched if different versions of the product are used, but if you want to support the